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An excellent account of the 19th Century events is to be
found in The Tzemach Tzedek and The Haskala Movement.
from which we have profusely drawn. It was furthermore this
stunning defeat that heightened extreme disdain for Russian
Jews, which was manifested in many ways by Jacob Schiff. 16
In 1838, Dr. Lillienthal came to Riga to assume the leadership
of a special school designed to destroy Judaism, which
opened its doors in January 1840. The Bund exercised its
master plan through a committee consisting of the Reform
functionaries, Phillipsohn, Homberg, Mannheimer and
Auerbach. 17
Lillienthal was born in Munich and graduated from the
University of Munich. To get an idea of how ruthless the
committee was, let us examine just one member, Homberg.
He attempted to have a tax imposed in Germany in 1795 on
the Sabbath and holiday candles used by the Jews. He was a
man of rotten moral character, and was convicted of
misappropriation of funds in 1801. In 1810, he published a
booklet entitled Who Is Culturally Fit for Marriage? in which he
tried to discredit religious Jews as not being fit for marriage. 18
From 1814-1841 Homberg served under Franz I as inspector
of Jewish schools in Bohemia, where he succeeded in
destroying the Jewish parochial school system.
When Lillienthal arrived in Riga much, groundwork had
already been laid by Bund controlled agents in Russia.
Lillienthal ingratiated himself with the then Prince Lichtenberg
of Russia, who was the prominent son-in-law of the anti-
Semitic Czar Nicholas I, who was notorious for his compulsory
conscription of Jewish children into the Russian army, and
attempts for their forced conversion to Christianity.
Prince Lichtenberg could be considered an initial forerunner
in the intrigues in government preceding the Bolshevik
revolution. He was a free thinker, considered a heretic by the
Vatican, and was cause for the King of Bavaria to be censured
by them for not concerning himself with his younger brother's
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